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If social media means a way to communicate with friends, family, and extended community online, it's pretty clear Meta and Tiktok don't want their products to b
by nitwit005 3y ago
If social media means a way to communicate with friends, family, and extended community online, it's pretty clear Meta and Tiktok don't want their products to be that. They've made sure you can't get a feed of just your friends.
It's natural the people who want that sort of thing will go elsewhere.
- jarjoura 3y agoMeta and I'm sure TikTok as well, would be MORE than happy to follow wherever users want to take the platform. The problem is, time and time again, users do not want what they say they want.
- soerxpso 3y agoWhat you mean to say is that time and time again, users do not want what causes them to maximize engagement levels and click on the most ads. "Users said they wanted this feature, but we implemented it and engagement didn't go up," doesn't mean that the users lied about what they wanted, it just means that they don't want to use the product in a way that requires a lot of wasted time. TikTok users say all the time that they want the option to see a feed of videos from people they're following, in reverse-chronological order. They're not lying. The issue is that the reason they want that is so that they can use TikTok for a short (30 minutes or less) session to check for updates on things they actually care about and then close the app, which would be entirely contrary to TikTok's fiscal goals.
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- hot_gril 3y agoI think they saw engagement dipping as people got bored with it, so they started filling it with algo stuff instead. If they went back to pure friends, I'll bet it wouldn't work.